The playbill of the I International Mariinsky Far East Festival, which will take place in Vladivostok from July 30^th to August 10^th, will present an extensive chamber music program. All concerts will be held at the Chamber Hall of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The first performance of the Chamber Program will take place on August 1^st at 17:00. Laureates of the First International Grand Piano Competition Alexander Malofeev, Shio Okui, Tinghong Liao, as well as Kanon Matsuda will offer works by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Tan Dun, and Ligeti. The list of achievements of these young musicians is quite impressive, including numerous victories at international competitions, as well as appearances at concert halls all over the world. Two days prior, the same musicians will be featured on the main stage with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. Guests of the Festival will have the opportunity to see different facets of the mastery of the future stars of world music scene.

On August 3^rd at 17:00, laureates of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition Yu-Chien Tseng and Sergei Redkin will present works for violin and piano. These representatives of the rising generation of musicians will present pieces by Tartini, Brahms, Bach and Wieniawski. Taiwanese violinist Yu-Chien Tseng is the winner of the second prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition (the first prize was not awarded). His unique style of performance, full of nobility and aristocracy, awed the jury. Yu-Chien Tsengs’s interpretations appear well thought-out and lived-through from beginning to end, and that exact style never fails to attract attention. His partner on stage will be Russian pianist Sergei Redkin, who has toured extensively in Russia, Europe and Mexico. The Primorsky audience has already had the chance to become briefly acquainted with Redkin, when he performed at the opening of the Rachmaninoff Festival in February of 2016.

The only late night chamber concert during the First International Mariinsky Far East Festival on August 8^th at 21:00 will present the rising virtuoso-pianists from South Korea. Dasol Kim and Tae Hyung Kim are recognized by critics and the public alike all over the world. Their technique and performance styles earned praise from very different categories of spectators. Tae Hyung Kim first appeared on international stage in 2004. He became the first Korean to win the I Prize and a special Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Beethoven sonata at the International Piano Competition in Porto (Portugal). Awards from prestigious competitions in Bern, Paris, Brussels and Hastings followed. Dasol Kim, winner of the International Young Concert Artists Auditions in 2015, will also take the stage that evening. Among his achievements are prizes from international competitions in Épinal, Munich, Zurich. He will make recital debuts in Washington, DC and New York City. His debut CD, Dasol Kim Plays Schumann, was released in 2015.

The second late-night concert, Young Stars of the World Opera on August 9 at 21:00 will feature winners of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition Yulia Matochkina and Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, as well as Korean singer Sunhae Im. Yulia Matochkina is well known by her large-scale roles at the Mariinsky Theatre. She was an incomparable Dalila in the new production of Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Dalila. The magic of her seductive talent will be apparent in Dalila’s aria, as well as in the songs by Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky that she has included in the evening’s program. Soloist of the Buryat State Opera and winner of the first prize and Grand Prix of the Tchaikovsky Competition, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, is at the start of his promising international career. Audiences will have the opportunity to appreciate not only the beauty of his vocal abilities and dramatic presence, but also his perfect Russian prosody, which he accomplished thanks in great part to his coach and mentor Darima Linkhovoin. Korean soprano Sunhae Im is a renowned interpreter of music of the baroque and classical eras. She has performed with such illustrious artists as Philippe Herreweghe, William Christie, and René Jacobs. She is also known as a performer of works by Mahler, a name she earned in part due to her performances of his Fourth and Second symphonies. On August 9^th she will sing a few works from composer’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, as well as songs by Spanish composers of the XX century Rodrigo and Turina. The singers will be accompanied by Sergei Redkin of St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tae Hyung Kim of South Korea.